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that the toes are not quite divided to the bottom : at the bend of 

 the wing, juft within, is placed a horn-coloured fpine, about one 

 eighth of an inch long, and blunt at the end : the tail compofed of 

 ten feathers, and the wings, when clofed, reach on it about an 

 inch. 



i8. 

 INDIAN B. 



SIZE of the Bulfinch : leneth fix inches^ Bill blue, hooked, -, 

 , ° . Description, 



befet with very long hairs at the bafe, exceeding the end of the 

 bill : irides white : general colour of the plumage green : fore- 

 head red : round the eye and chin yellow : the reft of the head 

 black: the under part of the body white, ftreaked with green, 

 paflingon each fide the neck in acrefcent, and bounding the yel- 

 low chin : beneath this, it is red, and below it a fpotof yellow, 

 except which, the reft of the under part is white : the quills are 

 dark afh-colour : legs red. 



This inhabits India, and is called Bujfenhuddoo. Taken from Placs, 



the drawings of Mr. Middleton. It feems greatly allied to the 

 Red-crowned Barbet *, and is a beautiful fpecies. 



* Sjn, vol. ii. p. 505, 



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